Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, a powerful new AI feature within Microsoft 365 that autonomously executes complex, multi-step workflows — letting users simply describe a goal while Copilot plans, reasons, and delivers results across tools and files, with early enterprise adopters already streamlining operations at scale.
Cursor launches self-hosted cloud agents, enabling enterprises to run autonomous AI coding agents entirely within their own infrastructure, keeping sensitive code and secrets secure while scaling to thousands of workers with no inbound ports or VPN tunnels required.
Charlotte robotics startup Lucid Bots raises $20M in Series B funding, bringing total investment to $34M, as its window-cleaning drones and robots surge from 100 to nearly 1,000 units sold while expanding into painting, waterproofing, and sealing markets.
Arm makes history by entering chip manufacturing for the first time, unveiling the Arm AGI CPU — a powerful data center processor built for agentic AI that delivers over 2x performance per rack versus x86, backed by Meta, NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and more than 50 major tech players.
Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of Pokémon Go player photos into a 30-billion-image map that now powers real-world robot navigation, with Coco Robotics already deploying the technology across 1,000 delivery robots in major cities worldwide.
Halter, a startup making AI-powered smart collars for cows, is in talks to raise funding that would more than double its valuation to over $2 billion, with Peter Thiel's Founders Fund set to lead the round.
Nvidia GTC 2026 unveils a sweeping AI strategy spanning robotics, personal agents, and open models with the new Nemotron Coalition, as the company fights to defend its CUDA dominance against rising competitors and cement itself as the foundational platform of the entire AI industry.
China's £100bn robotics revolution is accelerating at breakneck speed, with 140 firms deploying AI-powered humanoid robots in factories and retail settings worldwide, as experts warn hundreds of millions of factory jobs could vanish by the mid-2030s.
A billion-dollar race to build world models is accelerating as AI giants and startups pour massive funding into technology that can simulate physical reality, with AMI Labs raising $1.03 billion and World Labs securing $1 billion to overcome the critical limits large language models face in robotics and autonomous driving.
OpenAI is racing to deploy an autonomous AI research intern by September 2025, with ambitions to build a fully automated AI researcher by 2028, even as major safety and misuse concerns remain unresolved.